Planning permission is the council's agreement that you may build. Apply for planning permission.
It runs with the land rather than the owner, so it survives a sale. Planning permission usually lapses after three years if nothing has been started.
1nounplanning permissionThe council's agreement that you may build.
“The planning permission took fourteen months and two appeals.”
planning permission is a permission.
The term comes from the British Town and Country Planning Act of 1947.
The term was possibly introduced by the Town and Country Planning Act 1947 (10 & 11 George VI, chapter 51) of the United Kingdom.
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